Decarbonising shipping is more urgent than ever. But is a carbon tax the best way to achieve this? Wouldn’t it increase inequalities without sufficiently reducing greenhouse gas emissions?
Articles on Maritime shipping
Displaying all articles
The raid follows warnings from Washington to cease attacks in the Red Sea − but it could serve to strengthen rebels and reignite civil war.
A growing source of global emissions is the ships that carry most of the goods we consume. A 21st-century generation of cargo ships propelled by the wind can reverse this unsustainable trend.
Before the container was standardized, loading and unloading goods was very labor-intensive, inefficient and costly.
Carbon emissions from maritime shipping and port activities are on the rise. But city ports are finding ways to reduce their carbon footprints and reconnect with nearby cities.
Before the container was standardized, loading and unloading goods was very labor-intensive, inefficient and costly.
Maritime salvage experts will use a variety of techniques to free the Ever Given from the Suez Canal.
In 2019, there were fewer attacks and attempted attacks on ships than there had been in 25 years. The coronavirus may bring economic and political changes that make piracy worse in the coming years.
Any disruption to shipping in the narrow seaway could impact oil prices and ratchet up geopolitical tensions.
Dead whales usually sink, so most evidence of ‘ship strikes’ quickly disappears beneath the waves.
A fifth of the world’s oil travels through the narrow waterway.
Shipping companies are expected to halve their greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
Carbon emissions from maritime freight are everyone’s problem because of climate change.
Top contributors
-
Professor of Practice & Director, Fletcher Maritime Studies Program, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
-
Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies, UMass Amherst
-
Professor of Maritime Fluid Dynamics, University of Southampton
-
Professor of Economics, Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
-
Chargé de recherche, Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI), Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
-
Professor, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University
-
Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, The University of Melbourne
-
GDP Center Administrator, Boston University
-
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Colorado State University
-
Responsable de la coordination des programmes de recherche à la Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (FERDI)
-
Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee
-
Associate Professor in the Frederick S Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
-
PhD Researcher, Whale-Ship Collisions, University of Portsmouth
-
Docteur en sciences économiques, Ingénieur de recherche et enseignant associé, Sciences Po Bordeaux
-
Lecturer in Ecology, Scotland's Rural College